Zscaler
Staff Software Engineer - AI Security (Go/Rust/Python)
$152K–$190K
Santa Clara, California, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 17, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of software-engineering experience, including technical leadership across complex production systems.
About the job
Leads architecture and hands-on engineering for secure, scalable products that help organizations adopt AI applications and agents safely.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and architecture for major product areas and lead initiatives spanning teams and systems.
- Translate ambiguous product and security challenges into engineering strategies and establish system standards.
- Identify systemic risks, architectural gaps, and investments for long-term growth.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated exploration of AI tools and a history of integrating new technologies into workflows.
- Strong proficiency in Go, Rust, and Python, with deep expertise in systems engineering, security engineering, and backend platforms.
- Experience architecting and evolving platforms across multiple teams or product areas; ability to remain hands-on in coding, prototyping, design reviews, and debugging.
- Deep understanding of concurrency, networking, storage, APIs, data systems, and cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Nice to have
- Experience building enterprise security, endpoint, cloud, or infrastructure products.
- Familiarity with AI/ML systems, analytics platforms, AI applications, or AI security; experience scaling a startup or high-growth product organization.
Pay
$152,000 — $190,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Go, Rust, Python, AWS, GCP, Azure
AI focus
Build security products that enable safe, large-scale adoption of AI applications and agents; the role also calls for exploring AI tools and integrating new technologies into work.
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